It has been suggested, for the ease of our newer readers, that someone compile a small list of handy facts about this site's founder - Markos Moulitsas.
Here is a small list that I've been able to gather from various sources, in the spirit of other celebrity fact sheets.
I begin below the fold.
Markos Moulitsas looks smaller on TV than in person. He is actually seven feet tall, with hands that could crush a bowling ball. He sharpens his teeth by chewing beer bottles, and the rumor is that he shot Billmon just for snoring. He scares us all because he enters our villages and eats our livestock at night. - Rude Pundit
Chuck Norris is the only mortal that can survive as Markos Moulitsas' sparring partner. Kingpins are immune to roundhouse kicks. - DH from MD
Markos Moulitsas does not own a computer. He calls the server from a payphone and hisses the site updates in raw binary.
Markos Moulitsas does not own a computer. his posts spontaneously assemble themselves out of sheer progressive fervor. - wiscmass
Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings. Every time Markos Moulitsas posts on the front page, a wingnut spontaneously combusts.
Markos Moulitsas, during a slow afternoon waiting for a site update, wrote three of Mozart's operas - Don Giovanni, Idomeneo, and Singspiel. We remember them as being Mozart's work because Markos Moulitsas travelled back in time and gave them to him.
Archaeologists translated one of the Dead Sea scrolls as the Gospel of Markos Moulitsas. It says, simply, "Fear me." This is often confused with the Gospel of Armando, which is simply "Heh".
Markos Moulitsas donated blood only once in his life. We know the recipient as Armando.
Markos Moulitsas personally made pi equal to 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706
7982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381
9644288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091456485669234603486104543266482133936072602491412
7372458700660631558817488152092096282925409171536436789259036001133053054882046652138414695194151160
9 "because he felt like it".
Markos Moulitsas personally kills a blogger every time the margins are broken. A blogger died due to the pi entry above.
Markos Moulitsas invented the Internets. Yes, plural - there are actually seventeen Internets, and sixteen of them belong solely to Markos Moulitsas.
Over thirty-eight thousand women have become spontaneously pregnant from reading Markos Moulitsas' posts on Daily Kos. Markos Moulitsas does not run blog ads to pay for them - he simply squeezes coal into diamonds with his fists. When Markos Moulitsas saw that DC Comics had used this trick, he beat up Superman.
Bill O'Reilly is balding because, after Markos Moulitsas glared at a photograph of him, Bill O'Reilly's hair started to spontaneously fall out. You don't want to know what happened to Ann Coulter.
Markos Moulitsas is the One. The first Matrix movie is fact and shows how Markos Moulitsas started Daily Kos. The other two movies are fiction because a movie about him defeating the machines and software agents and liberating humanity with one hand while reading War and Peace wouldn't sell. - props to rasbobbo.
Markos Moulitsas owns the Ark of the Covenant. He took out the stone tablets that were inside and now uses it to store a copy of the FAQ. The stone tablets he built a BBQ out of and fuels it with original scrolls from the library at Alexandria - the entire contents of which are posted on one of his personal Internets.- eastvan, Muwarr90, and FleetAdmiralJ
Markos Moulitsas was Ian Fleming's inspiration for Ernst Stavro Blofeld. His stories are heavily fictionalized, however, because Markos Moulitsas recruited super secret-agent James Bond instead of trying to kill him. We know James Bond today as Hunter. - props to Malacandra
Markos Moulitsas is at least 445 years old and was once known as the Comte de Saint-Germain, although some say that he's much older, and may be the source of the legend of the Wandering Jew. - Malacandra
Markos Moulitsas actually wrote Shakespeare's plays, "Finnegans Wake" and "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues". - Malacandra
Markos Moulitsas knows where Jimmy Hoffa, Amelia Earhart, and Judge Crater are. - Malacandra
Markos Moulitsas was the fifth Beatle. - Malacandra
Markos Moulitsas is the only person Keyser Soze fears. - mndan
Markos Moulitsas rubberized his face to play Kevin Spacey playing the alleged Kaiser Soze, and all those "lies" that "Spacey" supposedly made up in the interrogation were actually true stories that happened in alternative universes that Kos personally controls. - zapmama
Markos Moulitsas Markos is the Grand Master of the Illuminatti, and as such, is secretly bringing about the New World Order. Markos Moulitsas is also the direct descendant of Jesus, Mohammed, Bhuda, Moses and the Tooth Fairy. The United States government is nothing but a front for a world wide organization seeking to suppress this information. Markos Moulitsas is also the rightful heir to all the royal thrones in the world, both extant and extinct. At this year's Bildenberg Conference they are going to sacrifice four billionaires, three world bankers and two media moguls on the altar in His honor.- Muwarr90, tjb22, homogenius
Markos Moulitsas is a signatory to twenty-seven mutual defense treaties against himself.
Determining his effective allies and enemies requires a team of professional logicians.
Each of his posts is run through a customized diplomacy algorithm to prevent him from inadvertently declaring war on himself. - Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)
Markos Moulitsas doesn't fear to say Lord Voldemort's name out loud. Lord Voldemort calls Markos Moulitsas "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named". - props to Pithy Cherub
Markos Moulitsas once shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. But, he got distracted reading an economics post by bonddad, so Markos Moulitsas resuscitated the man and shot him again. But, he got distracted again reading one of georgia10's posts, so Markos Moulitsas had to go back, resuscitate him, and shoot the man again. Not being a cruel man, Markos Moulitsas brought the man back to life a final time after he'd watched him die, but by this time the poor man's brain had been so damaged by lack of oxygen that he could only find work as a Washington pundit.
We know the man today as David Brooks, and that is why he hates Markos Moulitsas.
Oh, and Markos Moulitsas doesn't own a gun. He shot the man by pointing his finger at him and saying "Bang!". - props to jgkojak
Markos Moulitsas inspired the Dune novels when he met Frank Herbert. Frank Herbert gave props to Markos Moulitsas by inclding the concept of the Kwisatz Haderach. This is only fair, as Markos Moulitsas is the Kwisatz Haderach. - props to homogenius and LondonYank.
Markos Moulitsas: His blog goes to 11. - IndyScott
Markos Moulitsas calls himself The Daily Kos. As soon as he did, The Fonz lost his cool and became plain ol' Henry Winkler. - snarkalita, Robert in WV
Markos Moulitsas died 28 years ago, but Death is too afraid to tell him. - TheBlaz
Markos Moulitsas is not only the Kingpin, but he also starred in the movie Kingpin, playing every actor and most of the sets. He lost 145 pounds to play the bowling ball. - dday
Markos Moulitsas walks on water. Nevertheless, Markos Moulitsas needs boats. - Ari Mistral, tjb22, worried sick
Markos Moulitsas beat the Flash in a race. No matter how fast the Flash ran, Markos Moulitsas was already there, for Markos Moulitsas is always where he needs to be. - tjb22, wiscmass, Ari Mistral
Markos Moulitsas played the part of Brother Maynard in Monty Python's In Search of the Holy Grail.
It reads, 'Here may be found the last words of Joseph of Arimathea. He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the Holy Grail in the Castle of Kooooooooosssssss'. - f furney
Markos Moulitsas secretly beats the naked ass of every newbie to the DK with a size 22 Converse sneaker in a Satanic ritual based on the practives of Skull and Bones. The front pagers shoot rubber bands at your ass while Kos applies the sneaker. The only Daily Kos member that has not undergone the rite is Moody Loner, by mutual consent. - f furney
Markos Moulitsas finds birth control irrelevant. He simply wills little Kossacks into existence. DoodAbides is then in charge of naming them. Hence all the goofy names we have here. - FireCrow
Markos Moulitsas' tears cure every known disease. But Kos is too manly a man to ever cry. - shayera
Markos Moulitsas makes Baby meta-Jesus cry - with joy. - clone12
Markos Moulitsas does not stand and say, "I am Spartacus!" Spartacus stands and says, "I am Markos Moulitsas!" - props to Ex Con
Markos Moulitsas is both a ninja and a pirate! - clone12
Markos Moulitsas saved Bill in Portland Maine's life. - BiPM
Markos Moulitsas is too sexy for that song.
I've gotta go grab some lunch - add more while I'm gone. I will attribute you, as I've done with Rude Pundit, above. I'll add more to the body of the diary and sometime tonight or tomorrow morning, I'll make this its own site.
Update [2006-6-26 23:9:46 by Moody
Loner]: Oh. My. God.
Update [2006-6-27 0:47:28 by Moody Loner]: Okay, I'd keep adding contributions, but logs need sawed and sheep need counting.
Tomorrow, I look for a web host. Thank you all, and I'll try to include as many as I can. Note that if I just quote it, I put it under your name, and if I run with it, I give you props.